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Third Annual POPCAANZ Conference

Langham Hotel,

One Southgate Avenue, Southbank,

Melbourne, Victoria 3006, Australia

Tel: (61) (3) 8696 8888

Fax: (61) (3) 9690 5889

melbourne.langhamhotels.com.au

27th June – 29th June 2012

http://melbourne.langhamhotels.com.au/

PopCAANZ EXECUTIVE

President: Toni Johnson-Woods: [email protected]

Vice-President Australia: Derham Groves: [email protected]

Vice-President New Zealand: Paul Mountfort: [email protected]

Vice President International: Joseph Hancock II: [email protected]

Executive Director: Vicki Karaminas: [email protected]

Secretary: Rebecca Beirne: [email protected]

Conference Manager: Rebecca Beirne [email protected]

Conference Program Coordinator: Suzanne Osmond: [email protected]

Conference Coordinator Logistics and Operations, Melbourne 2012:

Ed Montano: [email protected]

AREA CHAIRS

Animation: Deborah Szapiro: [email protected]

Anime & Manga: Craig Norris: [email protected]

Architecture: Derham Groves: [email protected]

Biography & Life Writing: Giselle Bastin: [email protected]

Business & Popular Culture: Sarah Kelly: [email protected]

Creative Writing Karen Simpson-Nikakis [email protected]

Popular Design: Prudence Black: [email protected]

Disabilities & Popular Culture: Donna McDonald: [email protected]

Fashion: Vicki Karaminas: [email protected]

Popular Fiction: Rachel Franks: [email protected]

Film: Bruce Isaacs: [email protected]

Food: Toni Risson: [email protected]

Gender & Queer: Anita Brady: [email protected]

Girlhood: Juliette Peers: [email protected]

Graphic Novels & Comics: Paul Mountfort: [email protected]

History: Hsu-Ming Teo: [email protected]

Popular Music: Ed Montano: [email protected]

Radio & Audio Media: Martin Hadlow: [email protected]

Popular Religion: Sean Durbin: [email protected]

Popular Science: Bill Lott: [email protected]

Sound, Voices and the Everyday: Norie Neumark: [email protected]

Sports: Carol Wical: [email protected]

Toys & Games: Jason Bainbridge: [email protected]

TV: Rebecca Beirne: [email protected]

Visual Arts: Adam Geczy: [email protected]

The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture

Programme

WEDNESDAY 27TH JUNE – CLARENDON A8.00 – 9.00 REGISTRATION - Pre Function Area - Level 19.00 – 10.30 FILM I - National and Transnational ImagesChair: Bruce Isaacs

1. Ari Mattes - From Nam to Afghanistan: Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables and the Sanitization of Action Cinema in post-9/11 America.2. Yang Liu - Chinese Commercial Mainstream Films in Middle Class Myth3. Kylee Hartman-Warren- Fashionable Fascism: Cinematic Images of the Nazi Before and After 9/11.

11.00 – 12.30 TELEVISION 1 – TV WorldsChair: Rebecca Bierne

1. Matthew Campora - Are Films Bad or is HBO Style Just Better?

2, Rosser Johnson – Cosmopolitanism Underdone? A Critical Understanding of Commercialism within “food

television”

3. Elizabeth Kinder: Don’t Blink: The Uncanny Space in Television

12.30 – 1.30 LUNCH – Ballroom Pre Function Area

1.30 – 3.00 FILM 2 – Transformations: Form, Genre, AestheticChair: Bruce Isaacs

1. Adrian Schober - Why can’t they make kids’ flicks anymore? Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the Family Film 2. Anne Daugherty - Cabin in the Woods: Parting the Trees Exposes the Forest3. Andrew Chrystall – Inglourious Basterds vs. Hugo and The Artist: Self-Reflexive Smack-Down

3.30 – 5.00 TELEVISION 2 – Television and SocietyChair: Rebecca Bierne1. Emma Price - Her call: Female Sports Commentators in Australia2. Roslyn Weaver - Popular Culture and Professional Identity: What Nursing, Medical and Forensic Science Students think about their Profession on Television3. Steven Gil - Deploying Knowledge as Power: Contrasts of Religious and Scientific Epistemologies in Stargate: SG-1

5.30 -7.30 COCKTAIL PARTY & BOOK/JOURNAL LAUNCH – Aria Bar & Lounge, Langham Hotel

8.00 TV/Film Dinner – Sherlock Holmes Inn - 415 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

WEDNESDAY 27TH JUNE – CLARENDON B

8.00 – 9.00 REGISTRATION - Pre Function Area - Level 1

9.00 – 10.30 FOOD I – CakeChair: Toni Risson

1. Carmel Cedro - Dolly Varden: Sweet Inspiration2 .Toni Risson - Showing, blowing and making a wish: iced decoration on children’s birthday cakes3. Alison Vincent - The Lamington: Advancing Australian Fare

11.00 – 12.30 FOOD 2 – Women and FoodChair: Toni Risson

1. Donna Brien - Maria Kozslik Donovan: An influential food writing career2. Jill Adams – Mrs Dione Lucas Down Under3. Felicity Ameron - Veuve Penfold: The Woman Behind the Wines


1.30 – 3.00 FOOD 3 – Food and IdentityChair: Toni Risson

1. Lindsay Neill - But wait there’s more: why the White Lady is Kiwiana2. Lloyd Carpenter - Some Nostalgia with Your Wine, Ladies and Gentlemen?: Remembering the Central Otago Gold Rush on Wine Labels

3.30 – 5.00 SOUNDChair: Norie Neumark

1. Kate Ames - Doing Being 'friends': An Analysis of Host and Caller Interaction on Chat-based Radio Programming2. Rebecca Coyle - Scare Sounds: Sonic Effect and Affect in ‘Digi-Cam’ Movies3. Bridget Herlihy – Alone, Together: Headphones as an Aesthetic Prosthetic



WEDNESDAY 27TH JUNE – CLARENDON C

8.00 – 9.00 REGISTRATION - Pre Function Area - Level 19.00 – 10.30 WRITING - Panel Session - Research Ethics in the Field of Writing: A Conflict of Cultures?

Chair: Karen Simpson Nikakis

1. Lyndon Walker - Ethics Advisor Perspective

2. Dr Carolyn Beasley - Journalism and Writing Perspective

3. Dr Martin Andrew - One law for us and another for them?: The ethics of autoethnography in the academy and the real world

11.00 – 12.30 FICTION 1 – Suburbs, Storms and Political IntrigueChair: Rachel Franks

1. Belinda Burns - Made in Suburbia: a search for 'new' transformative narratives within the suburban landscape2. Karen Simpson Nikakis - Twisting the Truth: the power of vortices in narratives3. Jillene Bydder - How Spy Thrillers with Russian Characters Illustrate Political History


1.30 – 3.00 FICTION 2 - Truth in FictionChair: Rachel Franks

1. Katherine Howell - Feeling the Corpse: The work of the female doctor investigator in crime fiction.

2. Giselle Bastin - Truman Capote: In Cold Blood: From Literary Biography to Popular Biopic3. Errol Jones - The Power of Fictional Truth

3.30 – 5.00 FICTION 3 - Pages from American & Australian FictionChair: Leigh McLennon

1. Scott Macleod - Something’s afoot: Conspiracy, paranoia, and the amateur detective in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49

2. Alistair Rolls - Smoking in Arcadia or Barry Maitland's Embodied Folly: Re-Opening the Case of The Malcontenta3. Lucy Sussex - Tupenny, Hapenny Colonial Trumpery: Australian Writers Abroad



THURSDAY 28th JUNE – CLARENDON A

8.00 – 9.00 All Area Chair Breakfast Meeting - CLARENDON A9.00 – 10.30 FILM/TV 1 - Sex, Subject, IdeologyChair: Bruce Isaacs

1. Sophian Davidson Gluyas - Dancing Federation Steps: A Lesbian Reading of Strictly Ballroom2. Emilie Jervis - Experience, Transformation and Textuality in Black Swan3. Kimberley McMahon-Coleman: Who's Your Daddy?: Representations of Masculinity and Coming of Age in Television's "The Vampire Diaries4. MareeMacmillan - The Ghostly meets the Surreal: Femme fatale becomes redeemer in Oscar Wilde’s 1887 story, The Canterville Ghost, and Albert Lewin’s 1951 surrealist film, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

11.00 – 12.30 FILM 3 - Alternative Cinema Practices Chair: Bruce Isaacs

1. Angie Black & Hester Joyce - Alternative Artists of the Film Form2. Kim Wilkins - The Sounds of Silence: Hyper-dialogue in the American Eccentrics3. Pansy Duncan - Bored and Boringer: Avant-Garde and Trash in Gummo

12.30 – 1.30 LUNCH – Ballroom Pre Function Area12.45 Annual General Meeting – Clarendon A - ALL WELCOME

1.30 – 3.00 GENDER 1Chair: John Bratzel

1. Scott Beattie - Bear Arts Naked: Creative Counterpublics and the Fat Body2. Erin Harrington - Virgins, vaginas and ‘Teeth’

3.30 – 5.00 FILM 4 - Film Form: Theorising the MediumChair: Bruce Isaacs

1. Cody McCormack - The Beginning and the End of Identification2. Bruce Isaacs - Exceptionally Close Analysis – Spectacular Realism in Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan.

3. John McMullan - perthbands.tv: A Study of Meaning in Online Moving Image Media

5.00 – 6.30 Executive Committee Meeting – Towers 2

THURSDAY 28th JUNE – CLARENDON B

9.00 – 10.30 FOOD 4 – Food in Fashion, Fiction & the Formative YearsChair: Toni Risson

1. Lorna Piatti-Farnell - A Taste of Conflict: Food, History and Popular Trends in Katherine Mansfield’s Fiction2. Tania Splawa-Neyman - Food and Fashion on the web: the cultivation of culture3. Rowan Holt - The Perfect Mix

11.00 – 12.30 PERFORMANCEChair: Sue Osmond

1. Amanda Laugesen - Something more than a luxury: performers, audiences, and the meanings of entertainment in war2. Scott Welsh - Editing Processes and the Playwright's Narrative Voice3. Brent Downes - In the red corner: Theatricality in Mixed Martial Arts in Brisbane


1.30 – 3.00 FOOD 5 - Food and HealthChair: Toni Risson

1. Michelle Phillipov - Mastering Obesity: Television and the Pleasures of Food2. Charmaine O’Brien - Eating like an aristocrat: How Dining Etiquette Could Trim Your Waist and Rescue Society from the Scourge of Individualism

3.30 – 5.00 GENDER 2

Chair: Toni Johnson Woods

1. Rachael Gunn - Becoming-b-boy2. Matthew Bannister - The Kiwi is a Queer Bird: Settler identity and popular culture in Aotearoa/New Zealand3. Claire Maree - Abusively queer—subtitles and queer-speak in Japanese cinema


THURSDAY 28th JUNE – CLARENDON C

9.00 – 10.30 ROMANTIC LOVE 1 – Love and HistoryChair: Hsu-Ming Teo

1. Hsu-Ming Teo – The popular culture of romantic love – a historiographical overview2. Melissa Bellanta – The Sentimental Bloke: Australian Romance in the Anzac Years3. Catriona Elder - Romance, Drama and History on Australian Television

11.00 – 12.30 ROMANTIC LOVE 3 – Love StoriesChair: Hsu-Ming Teo

1. Mark Nicholls - Thank God He Me Lizzie and the Trauma of the Everyday Love Story2. Lucy Butler - Something Borrowed, Something Blue": disarticulating the popular mythology of romantic love in postmodern Bluebeard tale3. Lauren O'Mahony - Searching for a Feminist Representation of Romantic Love in Australian ‘Chick Lit’


1.30 – 3.00 FICTION 4 - Recognising Romance and Twelve Years of MurderChair: Scott MacLeod

1. Leigh McLennon - A vampire, by any other name: defining the urban fantasy, or paranormal romance, genre2. Vassiliki Veros - What the Librarian Did: The Romance Reader and the public library ebook subscription3. Rachel Franks - Reimagining Ellery Queen: from New York, New York to Cabot Cove, Maine

3.30 – 5.00 TOYS & GAMING

Chair: Jason Bainbridge

1. Jason Bainbridge - He-Man and the Masters of Merchandise: A case study in the changing status of toys in popular culture2. Martin van de Weyer - Japanese RPGs and the search for a ‘Furusato’ Identity3. Morgan Oliver - Playful Labour: Minecraft and the Economy of Play


THURSDAY 28th JUNE – TOWERS 2

9.00 – 10.30 ANIMATION 1Chair: Deborah Szapiro

1. Deborah Szapiro – Indigenous Animation: Present and Future Tense

2. Rebecca Coyle – The Jetsons: Retro-Futurism on the Small Screen3. Leyla Acaroglu - The Secret Life of Things: making sustainability science education fun through animation

11.00 – 12.30 POPULAR MUSIC 1Chair: Ed Montano

1. Ronnie Smart - Discourse Functions and Stylistic Characteristics of Codeswitching in the work of Wang Li Hong 2005-20102. Sebastian Díaz-Gasca - Videogame soundtracks: towards a model for consumption analysis3. Sophia Maalsen - Sven Libaek and Misty Canyon


1.30 – 3.00 POPULAR MUSIC 2 Chair: Ed Montano

1. Garth Sheridan - Syncretic Practise and Kuduro Musical Cultures2. Ed Montano - Insider, Outsider, Clubber or Researcher? All of the Above

3.30 – 5.00 ANIMATION 2

Chair: Deborah Szapiro

1. Hannes Rall – Animation for ‘Dance of the Shadows’ – a hommage to Lotte Reiniger 2. Damian Gascoigne – Muso Soup: Hybrid Aesthetics for 3D Animation 3. Birgitta Hosea - Sleight of the Hand Made


FRIDAY 29th JUNE – CLARENDON A

8.00 – 9.00 Area Meetings - as advised by Area Chairs

9.00 – 10.30 DESIGN 1 – Design and the Global EconomyChair: Derham Groves

1. Lisa Scharoun - Big Boxes Down Under: The social implications of the rise of Big Box retailers in Australia2. Derham Groves - The Ubiquitous Brick: Australia, India and Iran.3. Susie Khamis - Brand IKEA: ‘Swedish design’ in the global cultural economy

11.00 – 12.30 FILM 5 - Truth and Representation: Technology, Culture, Society Chair: Bruce Isaacs

1. Andrew Jones - It’s Not [Just] Cricket: The Art and Politics of the Popular – Cultural Imperialism, ‘Sly Civility’ & Postcolonial Incorporation

2. Holly Manaseri - Meaning Making: Dis/Ability in the Digital Age3. Antonia Strakosch - Glorious Basterds: A Case for Popularising the Holocaust in Film and Fiction


1.30 – 3.00 GIRLHOODChair: Juliette Peers

1. Juliette Peers - Rose Percy: Shopping for the State2. Anita Callaway - Where The Boys Aren’t: The Girly World Of Popsy And Friends3. Tina Vares & Sue Jackson - Preteen girls read ‘tween’ and ‘teen’ magazines: Negotiating gendered, sexual and aged subjectivities

3.30 – 5.00 DESIGN 2 – Design and Consumption

Chair: Derham Groves

1. Leigh Paterson – Manvertising: a Critival Appraisal of Communication Design in the Masculinisation of Consumables 2. Jane Shadbolt - Haven’t I met you somewhere before? Exploring the visual anodyne in microstock photography3. Soumitri Varadarajan - Ambierod, Affluent tastes and the Designer: Emerging navigations in Vehicle design culture in India

5.00 – 7.00 FAREWELL DRINKS – Aria Bar & Lounge, Langham Hotel

FRIDAY 29th JUNE – CLARENDON B

8.00 – 9.00 Area Meetings – as advised by Area Chairs

9.00 – 10.30 Fashion 1Chair: Vicki Karaminas

1. Anne Farren - Slipping between Art and Fashion2. Sophia Errey - Bags I Be It: Shopping Bags in Consumer Culture and Art3. Diana Marks - Representations of popular culture in Kuna molas4. Georgia McCorkill - Occupying The Front Row : Fashion networks in practice

11.00 – 12.30 Fashion 2Chair: Vicki Karaminas

1. Jennifer Craik - Challenges for Australian Fashion in a Globalised Fashion Culture2. Peter Allen - The Fabricated Man3. Liu Wing-sun - Fashion Brand Meaning(s) in Fluidity


1.30 – 3.00 Popular Culture & the EverydayChair: Vicki Karaminas

1. Cassandra Sharp - Will the ‘real’ justice please stand up? The transformation of public desire for justice through stories 2. Barbara Doran - At‘Onement’ INCorporeal - a body's voice amidst an ethos of online calculability and standardization

3.30 – 5.00 FASHION 3

Chair: Vicki Karaminas

1. Ann Pierson-Smith - D&G Go Home Now!’: A cautionary lesson in cultural sensitivities, local awareness and customer relations for luxury brands in China2. Sharon Peoples - The Politics of Appearances3. Denise Rall - The Bride as Banquet: consummation, consumption and – the dress


FRIDAY 29th JUNE – CLARENDON C

8.00 – 9.00 Area Meetings – as advised by Area Chairs

9.00 – 10.30 COMICS, ANIME & MANGA 1Chair: Paul Mountfort

1. Paul Mountfort - Oh heavens, I’ve barged in on a film company!”: Spielberg’s The Secret of the Unicorn as Pixelated Spectacle2. Leonie Brialey - Sincerity and Speech Balloons: the shape and weight of words in (autobiographical) comics3. Elizabeth McFarlane - Authenticity in contemporary Australasian autobiographical comics


1. Keith Russell - Moe: An Affect of Manga and Anime2. Jane Chapman - Rejected for Publication: Anzac Comic Art as Democratic Self-Expression

3. Yuri Shakouchi - Beatnik Superheroes: Application of the Beatnik Stereotypes to Superhero Comics in the 1990s and the 2000s



1. John E.Ingulsrud & Kate Allen - Caricatures of images: Analyzing stance-taking in manga character discourse2. Toru Matsuzaki - Onomatopoeic Expressions in Japanese Manga and their English Translation3. Joshua Paul Dale - Original Cosplay

3.30 – 5.00 ROMANTIC LOVE 3 – Consuming Love

Chair: Hsu-Ming Teo

1. Matt Bailey - Love for Sale: Translating Valentine’s Day to Australia2. Jill Adams & Donna Lee Brien - Food and Romance in Post-war Australia3. Annita Boyd - The Private and Public Life of Nellie Stewart’s Bangle


EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS

The exhibition entitled "Reconstructed InVESTments" from Denise N. Rall is on display during

POPCAANZ. View it the main entryway glass case, Building 513, School of Fashion and

Textiles, RMIT, Brunswick campus, 25 Dawson Street. Easy access from the CBD via tram.

Denise's exhibition displays her vests, with empty wine glasses and bottles strewn over excerpts from recent financial

pages, offering a tongue-and-cheek view to the current 'glass half empty? glass half-full?' debate in Australian politics.

Documents

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